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Education, disability and social policy

Steve Haines and David Ruebain

Abstract

Disability is an increasingly vital contemporary issue in British social policy, especially in education. This book brings together perspectives from leading thinkers including senior academics, opinion formers, policy makers, and school leaders. Key issues covered include law and international human rights frameworks, policy developments for schools and school leaders, educational inequalities for disabled children and young people, and curriculum design and qualification changes for children who are being failed by the current education system.

Keywords: disability, British social policy, education, law, human rights, policy developments, educational inequalities, disabled children, young people, curriculum design

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9781847423375
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847423375.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Steve Haines, editor

David Ruebain, editor

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